Effectiveness of indicators in the assessment of cognitive feigning: from type of stimuli to detection strategies An updated and extended meta-analysis

Abstract

The present database contains 109 entries which
represent studies on the assessment of neuropsychological feigning. From each
study we extracted a set of outcomes used to detect cognitive feigning in
groups of normal and clinical participants. Subjects considered to be feigning
were labeled mal and represented the experimental group, subjects
considered to be honest were labeled hon and represented the control group. We selected 3 types of
contrasts between groups: honest vs malingering (hon vs mal), malingering vs
malingering (mal vs mal), and honest vs honest (hon vs hon). Two studies
included an extra category of participants labeled indeterminate, which
generated two new contrast possibilities: honest vs indeterminate (hon vs
indeterm), and indeterminate vs malingering (indeterm vs mal). Test means
and SDs were extracted for each group of participants, on each
scale/indicator of included measures. Extracted data also includes: sample size
of experimental and control groups, type of participants (normal/diagnoses for clinical patients), type of
feigning, type of research design, type of investigated cognitive process, type of indicator used by the corresponding scale, type of detection strategy, and type of stimulus.

West University of Timisoara
(2018):
Effectiveness of indicators in the assessment of cognitive feigning: from type of stimuli to detection strategies An updated and extended meta-analysis.
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